Weiguo Hou

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Weiguo Hou is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiguo Hou has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Ecology, 26 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Weiguo Hou's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (40 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (16 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). Weiguo Hou is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (40 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (16 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). Weiguo Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Weiguo Hou's co-authors include Hailiang Dong, Hongchen Jiang, Geng Wu, Shang Wang, Liuqin Huang, Gaoyuan Li, Fangru Li, Bin Lian, Jian Yang and Brandon R. Briggs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Weiguo Hou

61 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A critical review of mineral–microbe interaction and co-evolution: mechanisms and applications

2022 253 citations Hailiang Dong, Liuqin Huang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weiguo Hou China	28	1.1k	709	686	329	189	64	2.1k
Sarah Fansler United States	27	1.2k 1.1×	463 0.7×	837 1.2×	366 1.1×	198 1.0×	48	2.6k
Cristina Dorador Chile	27	1.1k 1.0×	347 0.5×	596 0.9×	461 1.4×	102 0.5×	79	2.0k
Jennifer B. Glass United States	23	852 0.8×	563 0.8×	446 0.7×	320 1.0×	209 1.1×	66	2.1k
Nicholas Bouskill United States	27	1.3k 1.2×	560 0.8×	490 0.7×	526 1.6×	244 1.3×	55	2.8k
Emily Graham United States	29	1.7k 1.6×	562 0.8×	792 1.2×	378 1.1×	201 1.1×	75	2.9k
Liuqin Huang China	20	688 0.6×	432 0.6×	410 0.6×	266 0.8×	269 1.4×	40	1.6k
Hisaya Kojima Japan	29	1.4k 1.3×	846 1.2×	751 1.1×	524 1.6×	164 0.9×	111	2.3k
Deirdre B. Gleeson Australia	26	1.2k 1.1×	372 0.5×	403 0.6×	490 1.5×	106 0.6×	51	2.7k
Ketil Bernt Sørensen Denmark	18	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	675 1.0×	221 0.7×	104 0.6×	33	2.2k
Vitaly V. Kadnikov Russia	24	874 0.8×	663 0.9×	692 1.0×	289 0.9×	162 0.9×	99	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Weiguo Hou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weiguo Hou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weiguo Hou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weiguo Hou based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Weiguo Hou. Weiguo Hou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wang, Hui‐Yuan, et al.. (2025). Symbiotic N-Fixing Bacteria in the Root and Leaf of Typical Alpine Grassland Plants. Microbial Ecology. 88(1). 127–127.

Wang, Shang, Kai Feng, Weiguo Hou, et al.. (2025). The Same Source of Microbes has a Divergent Assembly Trajectory Along a Hot Spring Flowing Path. Molecular Ecology. 34(8). e17727–e17727. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Yuan, Hongyu Chen, Yizhi Sheng, et al.. (2025). Abiotic and biotic transformation of petroleum hydrocarbons coupled with redox cycling of structural iron in clay mineral. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 395. 44–63. 4 indexed citations

Peng, Xi, Miaoxiao Wang, Kai Feng, et al.. (2024). Metabolic interdependencies in thermophilic communities are revealed using co-occurrence and complementarity networks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8166–8166. 32 indexed citations

Hou, Weiguo, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of Lampreys Populations: Unraveling Ecological Mysteries and Gender Ratio Adjustments. Advances in Engineering Technology Research. 12(1). 995–995.

Yan, Dongna, Jinzhao Liu, Jianghu Lan, et al.. (2023). Lake sediment DNA reveals the response of phytoplankton to warming. Quaternary Science Reviews. 317. 108293–108293. 5 indexed citations

Su, Xin, Shiping Wei, Shouji Pang, et al.. (2023). Response of methanogenic community and their activity to temperature rise in alpine swamp meadow at different water level of the permafrost wetland on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1181658–1181658. 9 indexed citations

Cao, Ke, Xiaoyong Duan, Xingliang He, et al.. (2023). Influence of Sedimentary Environment Evolution on Fingerprint Characteristics of Methane Isotopes: A Case Study From Hangzhou Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(3). 7 indexed citations

Liu, Yiyao, et al.. (2023). Distribution of heavy metals in coastal sediments under the influence of multiple factors: A case study from the south coast of an industrialized harbor city (Tangshan, China). The Science of The Total Environment. 889. 164208–164208. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Fangru, Weiguo Hou, Shang Wang, et al.. (2023). Effects of Mineral on Taxonomic and Functional Structures of Microbial Community in Tengchong Hot Springs via in-situ cultivation. Environmental Microbiome. 18(1). 22–22. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Yuxuan, Shang Wang, Xiaolei Liu, et al.. (2020). Iron availability is a key factor for freshwater cyanobacterial survival against saline stress. Environmental Research. 194. 110592–110592. 5 indexed citations

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Xiu, Wei, Huaming Guo, Wenjie Yuan, et al.. (2019). Facilitated arsenic immobilization by biogenic ferrihydrite-goethite biphasic Fe(III) minerals (Fh-Gt Bio-bi-minerals). Chemosphere. 225. 755–764. 25 indexed citations

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Hou, Weiguo, Shang Wang, Brandon R. Briggs, et al.. (2018). High Diversity of Myocyanophage in Various Aquatic Environments Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing of Major Capsid Protein Gene With a New Set of Primers. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 887–887. 4 indexed citations

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Pan, Weidong, Jun Liu, Xiangjun Chen, et al.. (2015). A Practical Consensus Guideline for the Integrative Treatment of Parkinson's Disease in Shanghai, China. 2(1-2). 56–62. 5 indexed citations

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Hedlund, Brian P., Anna‐Louise Reysenbach, Zi-Zhang Liu, et al.. (2015). Isolation of diverse members of the Aquificales from geothermal springs in Tengchong, China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 157–157. 32 indexed citations

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Yang, Jian, Hongchen Jiang, Hailiang Dong, et al.. (2015). Sedimentary archaeal amoA gene abundance reflects historic nutrient level and salinity fluctuations in Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18071–18071. 55 indexed citations

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Guo, Huaming, et al.. (2015). Arsenate reduction and mobilization in the presence of indigenous aerobic bacteria obtained from high arsenic aquifers of the Hetao basin, Inner Mongolia. Environmental Pollution. 203. 50–59. 85 indexed citations

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Hou, Weiguo, Shang Wang, Hailiang Dong, et al.. (2013). A Comprehensive Census of Microbial Diversity in Hot Springs of Tengchong, Yunnan Province China Using 16S rRNA Gene Pyrosequencing. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53350–e53350. 183 indexed citations

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Yang, Jian, Hongchen Jiang, Hailiang Dong, et al.. (2013). amoA-encoding archaea and thaumarchaeol in the lakes on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. 329–329. 31 indexed citations

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Hou, Weiguo, et al.. (2010). Two electrophoreses in different pH buffers to purify forest soil DNA contaminated with humic substances. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. 9(16). 2401–2407. 4 indexed citations

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